Published 7:03 am, Tuesday, September 7, 2010

Plainview police were called to three unrelated aggravated assaults and arrested two people over the long holiday weekend.

Just before 8 p.m. Saturday, police were dispatched to the 2400 block of East Fifth in reference to a fight.

Capt. Manuel Balderas said when police arrived they found a 36-year-old man with a laceration to the neck. He told police that a known 29-year-old man stabbed him, after which he threw the attacker through a glass window.

The 29-year-old fled the scene, but was later located in Lubbock. He was released from University Medical Center after being treated for several lacerations.

The 36-year-old was treated and released from Covenant Hospital Plainview, Balderas said.

As of this morning, no arrests had been made and the incident is under investigation.

Later Saturday just before 11 p.m., police responded to a disturbance in the 1400 block of Joliet.

Balderas said a 31-year-old woman had been thrown to the ground, kicked approximately 30 times and punched in the face several times by Rene Omar Rios, 27, of Plainview.

The woman was holding a 5-year-old child at the time of the attack, and Rios reportedly struck the child during the assault. While the woman was on the ground, Rios reportedly threw a brick, narrowly missing her, Balderas said.

She was transported to Covenant Hospital Plainview where she was treated and released.

Rios was arrested at the residence for aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, injury to a child, public intoxication and resisting arrest, search or transport. He was being held at the Hale County jail on $37,700 bonds and was listed as an immigration detainee.